[Asterisk-Users] Will 200KB/s drive access be OK for voicemailstorage?

Kristian Kielhofner kris at krisk.org
Fri Jun 16 23:51:47 MST 2006


Boris Bakchiev wrote:
> Its slow :) It will give you some delays but it will not be noticeable
> (most voice files are 5-100kb, so it should be ok... But writing to
> them.. Not sure.. It should be ok as well I'm guessing as kernel will
> provide some caching (since you have G and not GS it has less ram, so
> maybe chaching is not an option) 
> Best would be to get WL-500G. It has a USB port so you can plug a USB
> memory stick into it. It will be faster and will give you more storage
> cheaper then SD.
> 
> 
> 
>>I'm using a Linksys WRT54G router and it works great but it only has
>>4MB of storage.  One of my only options is to modify the router to
>>accept SD cards (eg. 512MB) but the access time is only around 200
>>KB/s.
>>
>>Will this be fast enough to store voicemails?   ...or do I need
>>another (faster) storage device?

It depends on the codec...

ulaw - 64kbps
g729 - 8 kbps

...etc... ...etc...

I have heard that the wrts have issues with voicemail...

YMMV

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner



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